- Date
- 2004-01
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- weatherseasonal-lifehydrologyrecreationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
January 2004 brought rain followed by single-digit cold, a closing harbor, deep snow, snowmobile trails, ice-fishing shanties, and skating on Fox Lake, marking the arrival of winter on Beaver Island.
Evidence limits
This is a narrative local-weather account, not a complete meteorological record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 2004, “A Note on the Weather”.Describes January rain, single-digit cold, harbor ice, snowmobile and trail activity, ice fishing, and skating on Fox Lake. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the February 2004 report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-02_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026 · revised 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “January snow and ice open Beaver Island’s winter season”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-january-weather-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2004, “A Note on the Weather”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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